178 00 E

Uganda:
1 00 N, 32 00 E

Ukraine:
49 00 N, 32 00 E

United Arab Emirates:
24 00 N, 54 00 E

United Kingdom:
54 00 N, 2 00 W

United States:
38 00 N, 97 00 W

Uruguay:
33 00 S, 56 00 W

Uzbekistan:
41 00 N, 64 00 E

Vanuatu:
16 00 S, 167 00 E

Venezuela:
8 00 N, 66 00 W

Vietnam:
16 00 N, 106 00 E

Virgin Islands:
18 20 N, 64 50 W

Wake Island:
19 17 N, 166 36 E

Wallis and Futuna:
13 18 S, 176 12 W

West Bank:
32 00 N, 35 15 E

Western Sahara:
24 30 N, 13 00 W

Yemen:
15 00 N, 48 00 E

Yugoslavia:
44 00 N, 21 00 E

Zambia:
15 00 S, 30 00 E

Zimbabwe:
20 00 S, 30 00 E

Taiwan:
23 30 N, 121 00 E

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@Geography - note

Afghanistan:
landlocked

Albania:
strategic location along Strait of Otranto (links Adriatic
Sea to Ionian Sea and Mediterranean Sea)

Algeria:
second-largest country in Africa (after Sudan)

American Samoa:
Pago Pago has one of the best natural deepwater
harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough
seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds;
strategic location in the South Pacific Ocean

Andorra:
landlocked

Angola:
Cabinda is separated from rest of country by the Democratic
Republic of the Congo

Antarctica:
the coldest, windiest, highest (on average), and driest
continent; during summer, more solar radiation reaches the surface
at the South Pole than is received at the Equator in an equivalent
period; mostly uninhabitable

Arctic Ocean:
major chokepoint is the southern Chukchi Sea (northern
access to the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait); strategic
location between North America and Russia; shortest marine link
between the extremes of eastern and western Russia; floating
research stations operated by the US and Russia; maximum snow cover
in March or April about 20 to 50 centimeters over the frozen ocean;
snow cover lasts about 10 months

Argentina:
second-largest country in South America (after Brazil);
strategic location relative to sea lanes between South Atlantic and
South Pacific Oceans (Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake
Passage)

Armenia:
landlocked

Ashmore and Cartier Islands:
Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve
established in August 1983

Atlantic Ocean:
major chokepoints include the Darda